Portland Observer, April 1,1962 Page 3
METROPOLITAN
Inmate suit
challenges
censorship
The American Civil Liberties
Young and old. Black and white, parents and
students joined together in protest of the Portland
School Board's broken promise to the Black com-
munity. Shout» rang out as School Board mem
bers Herb Cawthorne and Chairman Bill Scott
waited.
(Photo: Richard Brown)
BUF halts School Board meeting
“ A ll fired up! W o n ’ t take no
m o re ,” “ M cN am ara’s the o n e,”
"Gisvold must go,” "Beeman must
go," "Sneaky Rieke," and "E-l-i-o-
t ” rung through the auditorium as
members and supporters o f the
Black United Front closed down the
Portland School Board meeting
Monday night.
The group marched into the
board room, look positions along
the wall and in front of the Board
members’ desks and chanted for ap
proximately 90 minutes until Board
Chairman Bill Scott adjourned the
meeting.
The protest was one in a series to
oppose the selection o f the Boise
building as a site for Tubman M id
dle School.
School Board member Herb Caw
thorne stood at his desk throughout
the demonstrations. Steve Buel,
who also voted for the Eliot site en
dorsed by the community, remained
at his place as did interim-Superin-
tendent Jim Fenwick and incoming
Superintendent Matthew Prophet.
Board member Charlotte Beeman
left the meeting immediately and
Scott, Riecke and McNamara wan
dered in and out of the meeting and
caucused in the halls.
Notable for their presence were
several uniform ed, gun-carrying
School District police officers. In re
sponse to C aw thorne’s question,
Dr. Fenwick said there had been ru
mors throughout the day of a wide
range o f possible actions at the
meeting. Cawthorne responded that
any demonstration would be peace
ful.
The next announced action will be
a one-day school boycott on April
19th.
Jones retains parole postition
Chalmers Jones has been appoint
ed to a third four-year term on the
State Parole Board by Governor
Victor Atiych. Jones is a former di
rector of special programs for the
State Employment Service and was
appointed ombudsman by Governor
Tom M cCall, who firs, appointed
him to the parole board.
Atiyeh appointed Douglas Dins-
more, executive secretary and trea
surer of the Lane County A F L-C IO
to succeed Ira Blalock.
Dinsmore served as a counsellor
for the Lane County Firs, Offender
Diversionary Program and was a
member of the Lane County Jail
Advisory Committee. He considers
his labor background as a plus in
understanding the employment
problem inmates have when re
leased.
Both appointees favor construc
tion of added prison space.
fra Blalock, whom the Governor
chose not to appoint to another
term, is a former director of M CCA
(Multnomah County’s war on pov
erty program) and of the City’s Hu
man Resource Division.
Union has filed a law suit
challenging policies and practices
regarding censorship of inmate mail
at Oregon State Penitentiary and the
Oregon W om en’ s Correctional
Center.
The suit asks the court to enjoin
corrections officials from enforcing
the policies on the grounds that they
violate the rights guaranteed by the
first and fourteenth amendments to
the US Constitution and violate
provisions of the Oregon Constitu
tion.
The complaint alledges that the
following practices are unconstitu
tional'
- Failure to notify inmates when
M ail addressed to them is censored
and failure to provide them an
opportunity to challenge the
censorship.
- Failure to notify senders that
material they have sent was not
received and failure to allow them
an opportunity to challenge the
censorship.
-Failure to deliver publications
soley because they were not sent by
a publisher or “ reputable book
store".
- Failure to deliver photocopies
clippings from news articles,
photographs,drawings and hand
made greeting cards on the basis
that the material "is not written or
is not approved to be received in
advance."
- Censorship o f materials that
discuss or depict homosexuality-
The p lain tiffs in the case are
Jenny Costa, Jonathan Landre,
Lionetti Haynes, Hazel Krum-
macher, Robert Reimers, M arvin
Johnson, Gary H o lt, C arol Pope
and Keeston Lowery.
Jefferson
hosts SF
art experts
Visiting Jefferson High School
this week are school and civic
leaders from San Francisco. That
city plans to establish a specialized
high school o f the visual and
performing arts.
Visitors are Agnes Albert, board
member o f the San Francisco
Symphony; M yra Kpopf, member
o f the San Francisco Board of
Education;
M a tild a
Kunin,
chairman of the school district’s arts
advisory committee and director of
the San Francisco Com m unity
Theater; Daniel Ryan, school
district director of fine arts and Ted
Moore, principal-designate of the
new school.
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